Lead Contracts in Bedfordshire

Leader
East of England > Bedfordshire

The median Leader daily rate in Bedfordshire is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 14 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 0
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 25 20 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 10.29% 10.81% 8.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.57% 11.11% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 18
10th Percentile £495 £381 £289
25th Percentile £563 £484 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -4.26%
75th Percentile £750 - £575
90th Percentile £790 - £658
East of England median daily rate £560 £588 £493
% change year-on-year -4.68% +19.29% +28.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £8.00
Median % change year-on-year - +556.25% -
East of England median hourly rate £73.50 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +13.08% +16.07% +202.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bedfordshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Bedfordshire with a recognized job title 216 180 278
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.89% 97.30% 97.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 130 149
10th Percentile £263 £174 £248
25th Percentile £359 £281 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £490
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -4.08% +18.79%
75th Percentile £556 £594 £538
90th Percentile £625 £625 £628
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 20
10th Percentile £15.31 £18.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.39 £29.31 £42.50
Median hourly rate £31.80 £63.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.12% +15.91% +243.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £87.50 £61.31
90th Percentile £65.75 £90.00 £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £35.40 £15.50
% change year-on-year +21.47% +128.39% -7.32%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings that featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Bedfordshire

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead in Bedfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Lead in Bedfordshire

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Bedfordshire

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead in Bedfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Bedfordshire

Lead
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Luton -1 21 £600 - 7
Bedford - 1 £575 - 1
Lead
East of England

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bedfordshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 21 (84.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (80.00%) SAP
3 13 (52.00%) Finance
4 11 (44.00%) Project Management
5 10 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
7 8 (32.00%) Ariba
8 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (28.00%) Order to Cash
8 7 (28.00%) Project Delivery
9 6 (24.00%) Life Science
10 5 (20.00%) SAP GTS
10 5 (20.00%) Business Transformation
11 4 (16.00%) Analytics
11 4 (16.00%) Degree
12 3 (12.00%) Knowledge Management
12 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
12 3 (12.00%) SAP HANA
12 3 (12.00%) Data Management
12 3 (12.00%) Service Design
12 3 (12.00%) Data Design
12 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
13 2 (8.00%) Batch Management
13 2 (8.00%) Order Management
13 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
13 2 (8.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 2 (8.00%) Accounts Receivable
13 2 (8.00%) Record to Report
13 2 (8.00%) Matrix Organization
13 2 (8.00%) Contract Management

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 21 (84.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (20.00%) SAP GTS
3 2 (8.00%) SAP ERP
4 1 (4.00%) SAP BPC
4 1 (4.00%) SAP SD
4 1 (4.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (4.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 13 (52.00%) Finance
2 10 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.00%) Billing
6 1 (4.00%) Banking
6 1 (4.00%) General Ledger
6 1 (4.00%) Local Government
6 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Life Science
2 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Project Management
2 7 (28.00%) Order to Cash
2 7 (28.00%) Project Delivery
2 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (20.00%) Business Transformation
4 4 (16.00%) Analytics
5 3 (12.00%) Data Design
5 3 (12.00%) Data Management
5 3 (12.00%) Knowledge Management
5 3 (12.00%) Service Design
6 2 (8.00%) Accounts Receivable
6 2 (8.00%) Agile
6 2 (8.00%) Batch Management
6 2 (8.00%) Contract Management
6 2 (8.00%) Matrix Organization
6 2 (8.00%) Migration
6 2 (8.00%) Order Management
6 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.00%) Record to Report
6 2 (8.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.00%) GxP
1 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (80.00%) SAP
2 8 (32.00%) Ariba
3 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) Hyperion
4 1 (4.00%) Siemens